[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu - database not backing up

[Nick Rout]

Had a database go wrong yesterday, luckily the optimize script fixed it (phew).

But it brought to my attention that database backups don't seem to be
working. I have a series of files in /var/backups,

nick at media:/var/backups$ ls -l /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 331 2009-02-08 06:47 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 2009-02-01 06:47 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 2009-01-25 06:47 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 2009-01-18 06:47 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 2009-01-11 06:47 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 2009-01-04 06:47 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 2008-12-28 06:48 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 2008-12-21 06:47 /var/backups/mythconverg.sql.gz.6


all of which (when unzipped) say:

-- MySQL dump 10.11
--
-- Host: localhost    Database: mythconverg
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version       5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0
*/;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;


and thats it.

What am i missing?